The Washington Post, January 31st, 2003
Leslie Fiedler, 85, a provocative author and literary critic who wrote volumes of essays, short stories and poetry, died Jan. 29 after collapsing at his home in Buffalo. He had Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer. Only days ago, he dictated four pages of an essay on D.H. Lawrence and did a magazine interview in which he reminisced about accompanying O.J. Simpson and Allen Ginsberg to a Bob Dylan concert in Canada. He was the Samuel Langhorne Clemens professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. "Love and Death in the American Novel," published in 1960, was probably h...
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